Posted by admin on October 23, 2012 · Leave a Comment
Thompson Street Has A Deep Past, 10th & Thompson Streets, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Circa 1918
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Category Built Environment, Historic Context, Historic Preservation, Location Location Location, Most Recent, Oldie But Goodie, Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Techologies in Buildings and Structures · Tags Architectural Salvage, Curator of Shit, Historic Philadelphia, Paving History, Paving Stones, Pennsylvania Architecture, Philadelphia Streets, Street History, Thompson Street
Posted by admin on August 29, 2012 · Leave a Comment
Green Begins With Reuse: The C.F. Sauer Company, Flavored Extracts, West Broad Street, Richmond, Virginia
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Category Architectural History, Built Environment, Historic Context, Historic Preservation, Location Location Location, Modernistic (1920s through 1940s), Most Recent, Techologies in Buildings and Structures, Virginia · Tags Buildings, Curator of Shit, Flavored Extracts, Green Buildings, Historic Preservation, Industrial Architecture, Industrial Buildings, Industrial Revolution, Richmond Architecture, Richmond VA History, Virginia Architecture
Posted by admin on August 29, 2012 · Leave a Comment
The Reading Pagoda Represents A Rich Past, Reading, Pennsylvania
The Pagoda of Reading, Pennsylvania, Represents the City’s Industrial Emience in the 19th Century
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Category Architectural History, Built Environment, Historic Preservation, Location Location Location, Most Recent, Pennsylvania, Public Architecture, Techologies in Buildings and Structures, Urban Landscape · Tags Asian Architecture, Curator of Shit, green begins with reuse, Historic Preservation, Oriental Architecture, Pagoda Style, Pennsylvania Architecture, Reading History, Reading PA architecture, Reading Pagoda, Reading Railroad, Spanish Roofs, The Pagoda, Tile Roofs
Posted by admin on July 24, 2012 · 2 Comments
Second Oldest Only To Pennsylvania Hospital, The Protestant Espiscopal Hospital, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
The Former Environment of the Protestant Espiscopal Hospital, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. the small chapel is all that remains, the rest of the space being dedicated to parking lots.
Looking in the same direction, the view has changed slightly to make way for parking lots, etc.
The extant [...]
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Posted by admin on July 17, 2012 · 2 Comments
The Washington, D.C. Townhouse & Its Old Cloth Awning
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Category Absurd Mansard, Architectural History, Built Environment, District of Columbia, Historic Context, Historic Preservation, Location Location Location, Most Recent, Queen Anne Revival, Residential Architecture, Style Section..., Techologies in Buildings and Structures, Tree, Urban Landscape · Tags Architectural History, Circular Flower Bed, Curator of Shit, Dupont Circle History, Logan Circle History, Queen Anne Revival Architecture, townhouse washington dc, Victorian Flower Beds, Victorian Gardens, Washington DC History
Posted by admin on June 20, 2012 · 2 Comments
Who Will Resuscitate The Joseph Priestley House?
Looking Northeast, the side elevation of the mansion (right), barn (far left), the double privy (on left), and the fences of the Joseph Priestley Estate (House).
Looking northeast at the Side Elevation of the Mansion House of the Joseph Priestley House.
Laboratory Interior View with Retort Experimentation, Joseph Priestley House, Northumberland, [...]
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Category Architectural History, Built Environment, Colonial Revival, Georgian, Historic Context, Historic Preservation, Location Location Location, Medical Interiors, Most Recent, Pennsyltucky, Residential Architecture, Style Section..., Techologies in Buildings and Structures · Tags Curator of Shit, Georgian Architecture, Historic Laboratory, History of Science, Joseph Preistley Oxygen, Joseph Priestley, Joseph Priestley House, Joseph Priestley Northumberland Pennsylvania, Joseph Priestley Scientist, Priestley House
Posted by admin on June 11, 2012 · Leave a Comment
A Row House With The Right Kind Of Awnings. Probably Pennsylvania.
A youngish couple, proud of their arrival to the solidly middle class, pose with their self-propelled conveyance (a bi-cycle) before their brick and stone masonry dwelling-a fanciful row house, no doubt two or three stories tall. While images of people and their houses are common [...]
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Category Architectural History, Built Environment, Historic Context, Historic Preservation, Location Location Location, Oldie But Goodie, Pennsyltucky, Philadelphia, Residential Architecture, Techologies in Buildings and Structures, Tree, Urban Landscape · Tags Architectural Style, Brick Row House, Cloth Awnings, Collapsable Awning, Curator of Shit, Double Doors Row House, Iron Grates, Philadelphia Architecture, Philadelphia Row House, Row House Period View, Row House Restoration, Stripped Awning, Town Houses Philadelphia, Tree Box
Posted by admin on June 6, 2012 · Leave a Comment
Small Stucco Railroad Signal Building, Who Knows Where?
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Posted by admin on May 18, 2012 · 2 Comments
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Observatory Georgetown University’s Astronomical Dedication to Historic Preservation….One of the Oldest Astronomical Observatory in America
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While the second, or at least one of the oldest, Astronomical Observatories in America sits at Georgetown University with peeling paint, bricked-in windows, rotting wood, and, overall, is in a general state of disrepair, we are not surprised at such priorities, [...]
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Category Absurd Mansard, Built Environment, District of Columbia, Historic Context, Historic Preservation, In the Name of God, Location Location Location, Memorial Architectural and Art, misery maven, Most Recent, Public Architecture, Techologies in Buildings and Structures · Tags Astronomical History, Astronomical Observatory, Georgetown Historic Preservation, Georgetown History, Georgetown Observatory, Georgetown University History, Georgetown University Observatory, National Observatory, Naval Observatory, Washington DC Historic Buildings
Posted by admin on March 17, 2012 · 2 Comments
Apparently Everything Is Bigger In Texas
Million-Dollar Shaft Memorial
Design For The San Jacinto Monument
Intelligence Claims Tallest Monument In The World
San Jacinto Battle Field
Houston Ship Channel
Harris County, Texas
Apparently not long after the erection of the 567.31-foot column, the San Jacinto Monument, on the Houston Ship Channel in unincorporated Harris County, Texas, a “Second Battle of San Jacinto” [...]
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